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W. H. BALDWIN.

' GAR STOVE.

No. 258,542.3C Patented lVIa-jy'BO, 1882.

Z *TI I NrTED STATES PATENT OE'EICE.

WILLIAM H. BALDWIN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF rIO HENRY C. WHITNEY, OF SAME PLACE.

CAR-STOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 258,542, dated May 30, 1882.

Application filed April 10, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concer-a:

Be it known that I,W1LLIAM H. BALDWIN, a citizen of the United States, residing atChicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Railway Heating-Stoves, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention'is to cause all apertures in railway heating-stoves to be closed up by automatic mechanism when the stove is displaced from its base by accident, so that the ignited fuel will be confined therein.

Figure l is a front elevation of a stove with my device attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a section of the same on line x a' of Fig. l, looking in direction indicated by arrows. Fig. 3 is a section on lineyy, lookin g in direction indicated by arrows. Fig. 4 is a detail of automatic closing mechanism.

A is a railway-stove, of any design, for burning either wood or coal. B is a top lid thereot'. C is the tire-box door. D is thc ash-box door. E is the smoke-flue. c a are stove-supports. a is a frame, of iron or any suitable material, securely attached to the bottom of the stove in a perpendicular line. An iron bolt or pivot a projects from the fratrie c', at a point near its center and at right angles tothe plane of the surface ot' thc frame a. A bar I is suspended upon the bolt or pivota,so as tot'reely rotate upon said pivot. rIhe bar l, in ordinary use, remains at an angle, one end, b, touching the bottom of the stove and the other end being depressed to any suitable distance. Each end of the bar I is; notched, so as to -receive and engage a process issuing from the lower ends ot' the rods c o.

To the rods c care attached slides d d,whose superficial areas are respectively sufficient to entirely cover and close up the apertures in the stove. When the device is not in use the slides in the front part of the stove, or those adjacent to the tire-box and the ash-box apertures, are above the apertures, and those in the rear of the stove are below the apertures 5 or their relative positions maybe reversed, so that the slides in the front may be below the apertures and those in the rear above.

The bar I is armed with a spur at its point of contact with the lower arm of the lever F, which engages a corresponding spur on the arm ot the lever F, and while the stove remains in its normal position the bar I is held in an oblique position by the corresponding spur on the lower arm of the lever F, and by the positions ot' the rods c c the slides d d do not interfere with the apertures C, D, and E; but when the stove A is rocked or torn from its normal position the rod or chainf, adherent to the xed staple e, deprcsses the lever F and throws out of engagement the spur which'engages the corresponding spur on the bar I, leaving the spring Gfree to act against the bar I, and the elevation of the bar I at its end b, and its corresponding depression at its end b', by the pressure of the spring G force the rods o c up and down respectively, causing the slides d d to cover and close up the apertures in the stove.

t' is a latch attached to the rod o, which engages a catch on the lid B and securelyfastcns it when the device is calledinto action. may be a corresponding latch on the opposite rod c to operate on the opposite edge of the lid, it' required.

What I claim as new, and by Letters Patent, is-

l. In an automatic mechanism for closing the apertures in a railway heating-stove, the combination ot' the frame c,the bar I,the rods c, the slides d, the latch i, the spring Gr, the lever F, and the chain or rodj', attached to the staple e, arranged in the. manner and opcratin g substantially as set forth.

2. The bar I, attached to the frame a', held dcsirc to secure in position bythe lever F, in combination with the rods c c,`aud the slides d d, and the latch i', and corresponding catch on the lid, substantially as set-forth and described.

3. The slides d d, and the latch i, operated by the spring G, the rod or chain f, attached to the xed staple e, the lever F, and the bar I, arranged and operating in the manner substantially as set forth.

' WM. H. BALDWIN. Witnesses:

WM. H. RrcHARDsoN, R. H. BARNARD. 

